CVE-2001-1561

CVE-2001-1561 describes a buffer overflow in Xvt 2.1 on Debian Linux 2.2 that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via long (1) -name and (2) -T arguments. The issue stems from argument handling in xvt, enabling code execution with elevated privileges because xvt is installed setuid root....

Debian DSA-082-1 : xvt - Buffer Overflow

Christophe Bailleux reported on bugtraq that Xvt is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in its argument handling. Since Xvt is installed setuid root, it was possible for a normal user to pass carefully-crafted arguments to xvt so that xvt executed a root shell. This problem has been fixed by the...

CVE-2001-1561

Buffer overflow in Xvt 2.1 in Debian Linux 2.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via long 1 -name and 2 -T arguments...